- Strawberry Days craft show to feature exclusively handmade products
- Snowmass Village man hospitalized after police Tasering
- Black Forest fire claims 360 homes; part of Colorado Springs evacuated
- Glenwood Springs pizzeria Russo's orders up extra space
- Guy Brickell reflects on three decades of teaching at Glenwood Springs High School
Glenwood Springs-based Fiberforge hits ‘end of the runway’
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Fiberforge, a local manufacturer of high-tech lightweight thermoplastic parts that once employed more than 60 people and was touted in 2011 as one of the “Colorado Companies to Watch,” has ceased operations. “We have been trying to …
Read More »Glenwood cyclist becomes sole North American distributor for KTM bikes
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Brian Boettcher has gone from riding a top-of-the-line bicycle competitively to being a big part of their distribution not only in the area, but across North America. Boettcher has been named the sole North American distributor for …
Read More »Downtown Market offers panna cotta, Frog & Toad
On Tuesday, Glenwood’s Downtown Market will welcome the fast approaching first day of summer with the creativity and dedicated work of its vendors, musicians and chefs. I was impressed at the first market of the season last Tuesday by the new ideas, …
Read More »Region added 935 jobs last year
The Roaring Fork Valley and surrounding region added about 935 jobs in 2012 as the area slowly continues to recover from the Great Recession. The latest quarterly jobs report released by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment shows that Eagl …
Read More »Ward Gulch fire near Rifle grows to 300 acres
RIFLE — Fire officials battling the Ward Gulch Fire near Rifle Falls State Park kept their fingers crossed Saturday afternoon that the fire lines would continue to hold as 25- to 30-mph winds buffeted the wildfire, and it appears to have worked, at l …
Read More »Eagle County ‘as prepared as ever’ for wildfires
VAIL — A wet spring and average winter means local ground fuels — the grasses and weeds that sit on the forest floor — have grown high and are ready to burn. Colorado wildfires burning along the Front Range have sparked concerns about local fire dang …
Read More »FEMA training helps Vail prepare for worst-case scenarios
What if a tanker truck crashed and a train derailed during the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships? That’s among the many scenarios the Federal Emergency Management Agency used to train local and regional emergency personnel in coordinating responses …
Read More »Ward Gulch Fire threatens Rifle fish hatchery
Firefighters in western Garfield County began Friday containing a fire south of Rifle and ended the day north of the city near Rifle Falls State Park battling a blaze that was threatening homes, had closed a highway and was burning toward a state fis …
Read More »Silt concert series opens with The Fabulous Thunderbirds
SILT — When Kim Wilson, founding member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, looks back at his near-lifetime career of playing music, he remembers Estonia. “We played in front of 140,000 people,” he said. “The stage alone held 40,000. I think it was a recor …
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